{"id":3619,"date":"2021-02-12T23:55:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T04:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkcitygangs.com\/?page_id=3619"},"modified":"2021-02-12T23:55:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T04:55:20","slug":"edward-falco-of-the-mayrose-lower-east-side","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/newyorkcitygangs.com\/?page_id=3619","title":{"rendered":"Edward Falco of the Mayrose Lower East Side"},"content":{"rendered":"

On October 19, 2019, I put a post up on my Brooklyn Rumble Facebook page about Eddie Falco<\/a>, a member of the Mayrose, a mixed youth gang on the Lower East Side in the 1950s.\u00a0 In the post, I shared part of the minutes of his hearing with the parole board of an instiution where he was incarcerated.\u00a0 He was in for assault and robbery.\u00a0 My post didn\u2019t say much about the crime itself and so I thought this page would give details on the actual case that sent him away.<\/p>\n

\"Edward<\/a>

Edward Falco<\/p><\/div>\n

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The date was the evening of February 2, 1954.\u00a0 The place was 301 Henry Street, Manhattan.\u00a0 This was the residences for the workers of the Henry Street Settlement House which was a not-for-profit agency that worked with wayward youth in the 1950s.\u00a0 The Settlement had been there since 1893, and they tried to help members of gangs like the Dragons, Sportsmen and the Mayrose stay out of trouble.<\/p>\n

So it was that on the evening of February 2, 1954, Louis Everstein, a worker at the Henry Street Settlement House, was about to retire for the evening.\u00a0 He was on the way to his room on the fourth floor of the building and when he got to the second floor landing, he saw a group of five youths lurking in the shadows.\u00a0 As Louis reached the top of the stairs, one of the group, who Louis recognized as a constant visitor to the settlement house, grabbed him by his neck and held his arms while his friends searched him and stole his wallet which contained personal papers and $21.\u00a0 The boy who grabbed him was Eddie Falco, a notorious trouble-maker on the Lower East Side.\u00a0 Once they took Louis\u2019 money, Falco released him and he and the other four ran down the stairs and out of the building.<\/p>\n

Louis Everstein reported the assault and robbery to the police at the 7th<\/sup> Precinct and a detective was assigned to the case.\u00a0 The detective didn’t catch Falco until two days later when Falco, who was arrested on a drug charge in Harlem, appeared in Magistrate\u2019s Court.\u00a0 Seeing him there, the detective arrested Eddie after Louis identified him.<\/p>\n

Louis did not sustain any physical injuries from the assault and it was very likely that the Henry Street Settlement would reimburse him for the loss of the $21.\u00a0 The detective also arrested the other four teenagers, but Louis wasn\u2019t able to identify them so no charges were made against them.\u00a0 The detective said that Eddie was well-known to the 7th<\/sup> Precinct police and that he had been \u201cconsidered one of the ringleaders of a small band of neighborhood hoodlums for a number of years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"301<\/a>

301 Henry St. where Eddie Falco robbed and assaulted Louis Everstein.<\/p><\/div>\n

When Eddie was questioned by the police, he admitted he was in the area at the time of the assault and robbery, but that he had no part in it and neither were his friends.\u00a0 Eddie said it was another group that had done the robbery.\u00a0 However, the police didn\u2019t buy Eddie\u2019s explanation and considered his story as \u201chardly credible.\u201d<\/p>\n

The police could hardly be blamed for disbelieving Eddie.\u00a0 He had a dodgy reputation that had preceded him for quite some time.<\/p>\n

First of all, he was a constant thorn in school, both at JHS 12 and P.S. 14.\u00a0 His behavior was so bad that he was sent to a \u201c600\u201d school which was for kids with behavior problems. \u00a0Even at this school, Eddie \u201cestablished a generally unsatisfactory record.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0After finishing 8th<\/sup> grade, Eddie attended Murray Hill Vocational high School from September 1952 to June 1953 at which time he quit. School records showed that Eddie had no respect for authority, used foul and abusive language and bullied and attacked fellow students.<\/p>\n

Eddie also had a record with law enforcement and the courts:<\/p>\n